page_title: Sofía Vergara
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Sofía Vergara / Career
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context_page_description: Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian-American actress, television producer, presenter and model. She was the top-earning actress in American television in 2012, 2013, and 2016, and she is the highest paid TV actress in the world as of 2019.
  Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi. She subsequently appeared in Four Brothers and the comedies Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns and Madea Goes to Jail, receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. In 2009, she began playing Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC comedy series Modern Family, for which she was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.
  Vergara has also had roles in the films The Smurfs, New Year's Eve, The Three Stooges, Machete Kills, Chef, and Hot Pursuit. She also had voice-over roles in the animated films Happy Feet Two, Escape from Planet Earth and The Emoji Movie.
  As of 2020, Vergara is a judge on America's Got Talent.
context_section_description: Vergara was discovered by a photographer while walking on a Colombian beach, and she was quickly presented with offers of modeling and television work. She was "apprehensive about doing her first television commercial—until her Catholic schoolteachers gave her their personal permission to take the assignment." She made her first appearance, aged 17, in a Pepsi commercial aired in Latin America.
  She then began studies at the Creative Workshops School of Acting, where Gloria Estefan also trained.
  In 2011, Vergara was supposed to star in The Paperboy, an independent drama directed by Lee Daniels. When shooting was delayed for a week and conflicted with her shooting schedule for the third season of Modern Family, she dropped out.
  In July 2011, she finished filming the Farrelly brothers' The Three Stooges, her first leading role in a major film. She said, "I play a mean woman that tries to manipulate the Three Stooges into killing her husband so that she gets all the money."
  In April 2012, she appeared in her son Manolo's YouTube web series Vida con Toty. Vergara was the highest-earning woman in U.S. television, earning $19 million for the previous 12 months on a list released by Forbes.com on July 18, 2012. Vergara was named one of People magazine's "50 most beautiful people" and named by The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard as one of the most influential Latin women in Hollywood.
  Vergara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 7, 2015.
  In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the 2016 Orlando gay nightclub shooting; in the video, Vergara and others told the stories of the people killed there.
  She stars on the ABC sitcom Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
  In February 2020, it was announced that Vergara would be a judge on America's Got Talent, starting with its fifteenth season.
caption: Vergara at the 2009 American Music Awards
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